What's the difference between bawling and sobbing?

Bawling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bawl

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All that shouting and bawling from two of News Corporation's most senior executives?
  • (2) "Man, I bawl like a baby every time I listen to this song," writes one YouTube commenter of the track Walk In The Park.
  • (3) !” bawled at me when, as a new cabbie, I had the temerity to ask one of my betters to repeat himself.
  • (4) "I have been watching the the USMNT for the better part of 20 years and it is always the same, in any big game where they need a result or where they are the favorites they play with both hands placed firmly around their necks," bawls Brian Goldych.
  • (5) The sensitive, rawer moments where fictional Julie’s life intersects with Grayson’s are inevitable given the honesty of his work, but what’s most impressive are when the details mirror the real-life Julies, as more than one bawls her mascaraed eyes out with familiarity when the group step inside.
  • (6) Firstly, Parker lost possession after going down in midfield and, as he bawled for a free-kick, Adnan Januzaj scampered away with the ball before passing to Van Persie, who, again with no Fulham defenders in attendance, smashed into the net from 15 yards out.
  • (7) As well as stopping the proceedings at regular intervals to tell MPs to calm down, he is now considering naming individual MPs who bawl and barrack during PMQs, hoping that being named and shamed by their local media will provide a useful disincentive.
  • (8) But through the bawling, a few useful things were got on the record.
  • (9) Cause he's also done that in the past," bawls Piers Atkinson.
  • (10) Yvette Cooper is the only candidate who looks like a prime minister | Richard Leese Read more In stark terms, he says Labour’s consideration of Corbyn must stop if it wants to be a serious party of power rather than just a “party of protest that marches, campaigns, backs strikes, calls for ministerial resignations, more money for every cause going, shouts and bawls and fingerjabs”.
  • (11) "The close proximity is highly relevant when you come to consider how openly these Iraqis were abused and how the shouting, bawling, screaming from that facility must have been heard by numerous soldiers and officers in that camp and yet no one appears to have raised it as a concern."
  • (12) This year public sector workers are turning up there to bawl him out over pensions.
  • (13) It’s all breastfeeding and dirty bums and bawling for hours and hours.
  • (14) "It doesn't greatly advance the feminist cause to allow MPs to cart their bawling babies through the lobby," she said.
  • (15) I rang my friend, my American editor and bawled and bawled, and she told me to write it all down, and I wrote for two hours.
  • (16) Might it pander to self-absorption, and encourage people to behave like bawling narcissists?
  • (17) And when I'd turn to them and see they were grinning from ear-to-ear, or they were bawling their eyes out, I knew we had something special."
  • (18) Standing to be mounted, bawling, and attempting to mount were the three criteria used for determining the presence of estrus.
  • (19) I think that deserves a round of applause.” A man called Michael says he doesn’t need a microphone and bawls his question in broadest Lancashire.
  • (20) Another fan further down the row bawled his eyes out as he bellowed to the heavens.

Sobbing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sob
  • (n.) A series of short, convulsive inspirations, the glottis being suddenly closed so that little or no air enters into the lungs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "After I saw you there, I just went out and sobbed.
  • (2) The results suggest that (i) the SOS response of E. coli and the SOB response of B. subtilis are strikingly similar from both a phenotypic and a regulatory standpoint and that RecA and LexA protein analogs exist in B. subtilis, (ii) the Recbs protein is capable of regulating its own production, and (iii) SOS-inducing (RecA-activating) signals are generated in B. subtilis following either DNA damage or the development of physiological competence.
  • (3) Effects of amygdaloid lesions on the switch-off behavior (SOB) and behavioral changes induced by a delayed reinforcement (DR) for SOB were investigated in 12 cats.
  • (4) Acts of kindness move Langham to tears, and before long another memory has him sobbing.
  • (5) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
  • (6) No one photographs the child with learning difficulty, sobbing as the teaching assistant they worked with for the past three years is booted out.
  • (7) He is very kind, honest, funny,” she said on Monday, sobbing as she remembered her only child, who had been flying home from Malaysia, where he was studying.
  • (8) In a televised meeting that has gone viral, the German chancellor rubs the shoulder of a sobbing teenager after telling her she was one of “thousands and thousands” of refugees that her country was unable to help.
  • (9) Since then, the cursing and sobbing have been plentiful.
  • (10) "This depressing morning has now got me questioning my pitiful existence," sobs James Dodge.
  • (11) She is generally a happy person, but in the last few weeks she has been showing signs of deep anxiety, phoning me sobbing with fear.
  • (12) The 56-year-old held a tissue to her face and sobbed during a five-minute hearing at City of Westminster magistrates court in central London.
  • (13) Liam Stacey , 21, of Pontypridd, south Wales, sobbed as he was taken away after the failed appeal hearing at Swansea crown court.
  • (14) The paper's "special investigation", headlined "No ID, no checks … and vouchers for sob stories: the truth behind those shock food bank claims", suggested that claims about the scale of Britain's welfare problems had been exaggerated.
  • (15) I sobbed for the last 30 pages but not, perhaps, for the reason you'd expect.
  • (16) Naturally I confronted them about it, halting their child's progress with a foot on the front bumper, loudly berating their crass behaviour while impressed pedestrians looked on, cheering and punching the air and chanting my name until Audi boy's parents fell to the ground, clutching pitifully at my trouser-legs and sobbing for forgiveness.
  • (17) 4.59pm BST "My fiancee have decided to get married in whichever country wins the World Cup so this game really has me torn," sobs Nate Philipps.
  • (18) She was followed by several women who must have been relatives or neighbours living nearby; the cries and sobs were so loud they could be heard clearly over the shooting and chanting from the street.
  • (19) "It's just so depressing this whole situation," sobs Angus Chisholm.
  • (20) One hand held the corner of the tomb and he sobbed uncontrollably into the other.